Rushmore State Royal

09/21/2025

🙌 A big THANK YOU to our amazing sponsors for their generous support of the 2025 Rushmore! Your contributions make this event possible. 🎉 Please join us in showing your appreciation by supporting their businesses!

09/15/2025

We are grateful to have had the talents of Empire Imagery on hand again this year. Be sure to check out their amazing work by visiting their website. Photos have been posted. And again this year, all photo downloads are free!

Empire Imagery

09/13/2025

Please arrive safely today! We can’t wait to see you on the purple chips!

09/13/2025

“There’s a kind of magic in the purple shadows of dusk.”

09/12/2025

Jaylee won the prize for best intro walk last year. Who will get the crowd the most hyped this year!? The countdown is on!

09/12/2025

We can't wait to see you! Please use the map below for directions and parking information for the Dacotah Bank Center.

09/10/2025

🎤 Please help us to welcome our show judge, Jade Jenkins from Marshall, Missouri!

Jade is currently an Agricultural Instructor and FFA Advisor at the Saline County Career Center in Marshall, Mo. She also co-owns Jenkins Market with her father. Jenkins Market is a market farm to fork business that focuses on fresh vegetables, meat, pumpkins & mums.

Jade is a past collegiate livestock judging coach. She enjoys working with youth livestock exhibitors nationwide! She has judged in 21 different states on the district, state, and national levels.

She has judged the Arizona National Sheep and Goat Showmanship as well as the Colorado, Kansas State Fair Goat Showmanship.

She was a member of the Illinois Central College livestock judging team and Oklahoma State University Livestock Judging Team. She has a Masters in Ag. Leadership and Bachelors in Ag. Education.

She can’t wait until her daughter, Haven who is 5, is old enough to show. For now, the pair enjoys watching shows together. Jade lives by faith, family, and friends.

Welcome Jade!

09/09/2025

🎤Introducing our showmanship and U-Fit-It judges. Please help us welcome Kaleb and Grace!

Kaleb Lunstra is from Lennox, South Dakota where he grew up raising and showing goats. Grace Olinger is originally from northwest Colorado and has a background in raising and showing sheep. Both Kaleb and Grace attended junior college as members of livestock judging teams before eventually transferring to South Dakota State University. There, they attained their Bachelor's degrees while finishing out their collegiate judging careers. Currently, Kaleb works for American Foods Group in Cattle Procurement, while Grace serves as the assistant livestock judging coach at SDSU and is working towards the completion of her Master's degree in Ruminant Nutrition.

09/06/2025

🎶Put your hands in the air… if you’re ready for the Royal!